We know that climate change is a very serius problem to our generation. But how serious? We decided to ask help from the Data Science field and apply machine learning techniques to help us to estimate how many people might die in the next few years.
Charon, in Greek mythology, was responsible for conducting Hades’ boat between the world of lives and deaths. We expected our work also to connect the world of data science and public policy. Using Charon’s allegory, we want to raise the serious question of climate change and its impact on people’s life.
In this post, we want to share one of the most exciting tasks we have had in our Master of Data Science for Public Policy at the Hertie School. Then, we will contextualize and explain why and how we decided to use a machine-learning model.